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To: orionblamblam
None, so far as I know. Does that mean they aren't alive? How do you define "alive," anyway?

Ah, and there's the rub. Seems to me that biologists, by not assigning them to a taxonomic kingdom, have kind of answered that question, haven't they?
115 posted on 02/11/2005 9:32:03 AM PST by Antoninus (In hoc sign, vinces †)
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To: Antoninus

> Seems to me that biologists, by not assigning them to a taxonomic kingdom, have kind of answered that question, haven't they?

Define "alive" in a way that clearly excludes virii.


116 posted on 02/11/2005 9:48:52 AM PST by orionblamblam
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